Facebook is now letting people in the U.S. choose a gender option for their profile pages beyond just male or female.

The new setting rolled out Thursday allows people to identify themselves as transgender, transsexual, cisgender, intersex or gender fluid, among more than 50 options. The changes also let people select which pronoun — he, she or they — they want to be referred by on the social network.

People can select more than one gender identifier and choose who to share the custom gender with — public, friends or custom groups of contacts — though the pronoun choice is a public setting. Changing a gender setting won’t trigger an alert to friends the way a new profile photo or job might.

Facebook announced the changes Thursday on its diversity page, stating that it wants “you to feel comfortable being your true, authentic self.” Facebook said it worked with LGBT groups, including GLAAD, to determine an acceptable list of gender identities.

“We recognize that some people face challenges sharing their true gender identity with others, and this setting gives people the ability to express themselves in an authentic way,” Facebook said.

Chad Griffin, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT advocacy group, said in a prepared statement that he hopes other tech companies will follow Facebook’s lead in offering more choices than just male or female when it comes to gender. “Over the past few years, a person’s Facebook profile truly has become their online identity, and now Facebook has taken a milestone step to allow countless people to more honestly and accurately represent themselves,” Griffin said.

For now the extensive new gender options are only available for the English language version in the U.S., however a Facebook spokesman said the company is working to bring the changes to different countries.